FIRST TAKE | “Boston is a scammer” – Stephen A. “STUNNED” Celtics COLLAPSE over Cavaliers 105-104

FIRST TAKE | “Boston is a scammer” – Stephen A. “STUNNED” Celtics COLLAPSE over Cavaliers 105-104

H good morning everyone welcome to the first take on a Wednesday we’ve got a whole crew coming through today JJ reic Austin Rivers Ryan Clark here I’m Christine Williamson here from M how are you guys doing well doing good yeah doing well um I’m a little disappointed

You didn’t say three of your favorite college players because I played volleyball and I am also one of your favorites but I was talking about basketball I know it’s fine it’s totally okay I got I got I wasn’t one of your favorite NBA players no okay uh after I

Watched you play against Garrett Temple and big baby and then I was like man they call a lot of unne Neary fouls for JJ reck you know that was a problem no whistle that game I was three for 18 I was three for 18 because the boot boys

Came to play and we understood that we had to play you guys and the officials I love it also congratulations our thank you very much um we got Kimberly Martin leis R coming in a little bit and we also have John Cena here to talk about his upcoming movie that’s happening a

Little later in the show but let’s get things going starting with the association the Celtic 11 game win streak was snapped last night against the Cavs who overcame a 22o deficit sit in the final frame in large part due to Dean Wade who made Five three-pointers

And scored 20 points to win 105 to 104 now with a seven seconds left in the game Jason Tatum appeared to draw a foul on a fade away that would the CBS would later Challenge and the officials ultimately determined it was Tatum’s leg that caused the contact here he

Is thought I got fouled but they didn’t think I got fouled and it’s tough cuz we got would had to tip in so uh just a weird way to end the game but you know they always say the game isn’t won or loss on the last play it’s a lot of

Things that we didn’t do well um in that fourth quarter put us in that position JJ I’m going to start with you on this one are you okay with that foul being rescinded I’m absolutely okay with the foul being recced uh the official who called it Zach zarba excellent

Official he’s been in the league a long time gets to call finals games he’s a top tier official you think about the time and score and the situation Cleveland had already used a challenge early in the fourth quarter on a jayen brown and one on a three-pointer that

Got overturned so they get a second challenge Zach zarba knows this there was enough contact there was enough proximity between Garland and Tatum and the time almost a second is left right where if Boston all of a sudden gets you know screwed a little bit if there was a

Foul he’s going to feel bad I I I think I don’t know that he did it intentionally but it was the right call on the situation to called the foul ultimately it wasn’t a foul also I got a question for you randomly this thing that uh NBA players are now allowed to

Do like Garland puts his hand on his chest on his follow through and by the way it’s not a foul anymore yeah there’s a montage video on Twitter right now of Dylan Brooks every time he contests a shot he’s high-fiving the guy yeah as a shooter the fact that people think that

Doesn’t affect your shot it’s ridiculous it absolutely does it’s ridiculous it’s pushing you away from the basket so the whole force of you following through going negative uh that’s a tough call it’s a 50-50 call for me my thing is the only time you should ever be overturning

It is if it’s just clear yes and that for me he did kick his leg out but it’s natural a fade away especially when a guy’s going to his right and he has his legs out you know do I overturn it but listen it’s it’s a home game you the Travis Kelce bobblehead

Knight you got all the people there the the big comeback Dean Wade has a come to Jesus moment and has 20 and the fourth uh it just seemed like everything was kind of going right for Cleveland to where you know that call was made um I

Have been 50/50 on it it’s a tough one for me but the the hand on the chest for me is is an issue to me resending it was the issue but when I listen to JJ it makes me feel a little differently in the NFL now when you have a turnover

Every turnover is reviewed and so there are a ton of turnovers where the the officials don’t blow the whistle they allow the play to finish and now they can go back on replay and either say yes or no it was or was not a turnover and

They can also Mark the ball right or also figure out where the ball should be placed and so listen in the JJ and if official has that much wherewithal to understand where the game is where the team is when it comes to challenges I do

Think that’s a smart way to go about the play but also too like you said though JJ that affects a shooter putting your hand on a Shooter’s chest or the shooter understanding that at some point there could be contact that affects the way that you follow through that affects the

Way that you finish the other side of this too is Jason Tatum saying he held the ball a little bit too long right that Jason Tatum didn’t move or didn’t go at the right point in the shot clock it also shows kind of the way the Boston

Celtics played down the stretch and sort of having a feeling of not showing up in one of those big moments after 11 game win streak you know Jason T brought up something which was just the offensive rebound we saw last year game six in the conference finals Derrick White get an

Offensive rebound put it back so I get his gripe there uh the call that was over termed the an one on Jaylen Brown is a great example of this Jaylen Brown shoots a three from the left wing yeah he shoots the ball Darius Garland goes

By him and hits his left arm out of the way and Jaylen Brown sells the call five years ago that’s a that’s a defensive foul that’s an an one there’s no challenge there I don’t again I’m biased I was a shooter that stuff absolutely affects whether or not the ball goes in

It’s not just when the ball is released it’s everything that happens in that Split Second afterwards that can affect your shot all right let’s talk a little bit more about this matchup do you think JJ that this is more of a c or Cavs uh

Win or a Celtics loss in this one well give the Cleveland Cavaliers credit because they played out of their mind Dean Wade outscored the Boston Celtics the fourth quarter himself you know it’s interesting you see this all the time Austin a team gets up in the fourth quarter they’re up 9371 with nine

Minutes to go and they just take their foot off the gas and it’s little stuff right with the NBA the way it’s played now in three-pointers it’s not closing out all the way to George Nang in the corner it’s not closing out all the way to Dean Wade it’s turning the ball over

On two of three possessions and all of a sudden that 22-point lead is now 11 10 n momentum has been lost and here’s my issue where I say it was more the Boston Celtics and not the Cleveland C cabul I want to give the Cavs credit the Boston

Celtics at times in the fourth quarter can get so stagnant and if you look at the advanced metrics look they have the third best clutch record they had the fourth best offense in the clutch they had the seventh best offense in the fourth quarter but they rely too much at

Times to me on ISO basketball yep they rely too much at times in terms of frequency in the fourth quarter they run the four fourth most isos in terms of points per possession on those isos they’re 27th in the NBA Tatum last night 0 for four he had five isos 0 for four

The fifth one was a Chuck to Horford who shot a contested three at the end of the quarter they they don’t run great stuff they rely on exploiting mismatches and last night to the Cavs credit they couldn’t exploit those mismatches you feel like sometimes this is just a

Repetitive thing that we see with this team my favorite game from the Celtics this year is Christmas Day game when they played against the Lakers it was all ball movement they dominated the game why why have a Drew holiday presenting us a Derek white if we’re

Going to just break it down to ISO basketball at the end of each game this is what happened to him last year in the playoffs when they ran into a team like Miami when you when you run against Elite perimeter def defense like a guy like Jimmy Butler guys who could make it

Difficult you just pretty much end up seeing a Jaylen Brown Tatum show and that’s what we saw last night I also have a problem with them listen I have no problem D Wayne had a great game give him credit but like yo after his 10th point or 11th Point that’s a guy that

You supposed to go out there and just cut that off you know what I mean but that’s just a lack of focus uh I think they like you said they got a little bit ahead of themselves but once that momentum shifts you know how it is once

Once it switches you can’t turn it back they saw Donovan Mitchell not playing they figured okay we have this game one I I I don’t want to harp too much on it they haven’t lost in like a month this is the best team in the East been the

Best team in the NBA all season um but that’s the biggest issue I have with the Celtics right now is how are they going to close games in the crunch time in the playoffs is it just going to come down to a Tatum Brown Show because Tatum

Right now is 33% in the clutch he’s one actually we talking about you know Premier players in the league he’s one of the worst in the in in the Crunch and this is a guy who you know he just said what was it a month ago he wants to be

The face of the league to do that you have to know how to finish games it can’t always just be ISO play my favorite games with Tatum is not when he has 40 it’s when he has 26 and eight assist and seven rebounds and he’s playing like a real Superstar and that’s

Getting the win playing through his teammates because they have the Best Supporting Cast in basketball so I have to ask you guys this so from a football standpoint a lot of times when you get to the crunch time the critical moments we always always say players over plays

So if you have a great quarterback and a great wide receiver you want to call something that gets those two people involved you spoke about sets JJ so to you is it to go away from the iso ball that involves Jason Tatum when you think he has a matchup or Jaylen Brown which

Could be the best duo in the entire NBA and involve them in sets so they get touches because I feel like that’s still the sort of players you want to have the basketball in their hand though well there it’s a great question Ryan there’s two things to that so if you look at

What they run in in in the clutch time it’s a lot of uh Derek white Jason Tatum pick and rolls okay because Derrick White oftentimes is getting guarded by the fifth worst defender on the court so they want to get that switch throw the ball back to Tatum play out of that so

That’s how they get to those isos right they do run a ton of stuff for Derek white and for zingis they also run that that that pick and roll du has been one of the best in the NBA All Season Dereck white has been their best clutch player

All Season he’s over 50% from three on the season in the clutch the issue for me and this is longterm this is not the entirety of a regular season where you have to mix in bad teams with some of these stats the issue for me is when you

Get deeper and deeper into the playoffs teams aren’t putting bad Defenders a closing lineup you get fourth so to me it’s it’s a little more movement you could still get the ball to Tatum you can still get the ball to Jaylen brown but all for our middle Tower is under attack nice

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FIRST TAKE | “Boston is a scammer” – Stephen A. “STUNNED” Celtics COLLAPSE over Cavaliers 105-104